tonight, director jon favreau. world cup champions, alex morgan and megan rapinoe. this week in unnecessary censorship and music from taylor bennett. and now, step aside. jimmy kimmel! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. hello, everyone. i'm jimmy. thank you for watching, thank you for coming to join us. thank you for everything, really. this is, well, i'm glad you're in a great mood. because today we celebrate one of our most cherished holidays in this country. today is 7-eleven, also known as free slurpy day. [cheers and applause] although, you know, any day can be free slurpy day if you drink them fast enough. people love this holiday. they've been doing this for 17 years now. and it's much more popular than 7-eleven's other big promotional holiday, free wrinkled tiny hot dog that's been sitting out since the bush administration. i believe that's october 8. today's the day you spend hours waiting in line for a slurpy for free, or you can pay a dollar any other day and get one in like two seconds, nothing against slurpies. as a general rule, i don't drink

jon favreau, jon lovett, and tommy vietor.he senate intelligence committee. why would they strike a deal with him? he said no. they subpoenad him. if he says no the next time, they can grab him by the short hairs and drag him in front of the committee per force. why strike a deal? >> i think part of it is all the republicans in senate, aside from the chairman of the committee, richard burr, decided to attack burr for threatening to issue a subpoena to donald trump jr. in the first place. >> stephen: why do you think burr did it? it seems look a stretch for any republican to go after a trump in this way. >> when you look at the mueller report, clearly what we know from the mueller report about don jr., does not track with the testimony he gave last time he was in front of congress. >> stephen, there is a chance-- and i don't want to you get upset-- donald trump jr. may not have told the truth to that committee. >> not on the level. not on the level. >> and the thing about it is-- ( laughter ) i'm so sorry. ( applause ) ( cheers

i was ready to do something special and jon favreau who directed -- the amazing jon favreau. >> jimmys an improv guy, he really wanted us to just bring as much of ourselves to it as possible.d anit's unbelievable. it looks -- by the way jimmy, it looks - you guys have seen the trailer for "lion king?" >> jimmy: yeah [ cheers and applause but do you - when you're doing this do you see what it going to look like i mean, did you see the trailer the way we all saw it, and go like, "what is happening?" amazing. >> yeah, i saw the trailer i was watching the trailer in a room with jon favreau beforea iceover session. i was sitting in a room, and just a room with couches and equipment, and i'm watching the trailer, and i was like, this is - this is going to be good [ laughter ] this is going toe amazing. he's like, "yeah bro, you're in it." >> jimmy: you're in it [ laughter ] >> we're about to get to work. >> jimmy: that's why you're he we're getting up to go to work i'm like, "but did you see the giraffes?" >> jimmy: you're in that >> oh, i'm in it >> jimmy: yeah >> i was in shock 'cause it

so beautiful what jon favreau and the designers have done. she's thrilled. yeah, i think seth and i are on the itunes chart with beyonce on "can you feel the love tonight." it's very exciting and bizarre. >> beyonce posted a photo of the cast at the london premiere and i want to take a look at it because i want to ask you, going to zoom in. >> don't do that. >> what's going through your mind right there? >> if you zoom out again you see it's -- that's jon favreau, tim rice next to us who's written so many great musicals, beyonce in the middle, pharrell, elton john, keegan-michael key, la boheme who sings "circle of life." and has always been singing "circle of life." that is an insane group of people, so it was very exciting. [ applause ]no your own with that group. you hold your own. >> thank you. >> more than you know. >> so nice. >> i mean it. sincerely. a bartender at the "lion king" on broadway. >> this is a true full circle moment. when i was a struggling actor in new york in 2002, i was a bartender at "the lion king" on broadway. >> ci

but it also took director jon favreau about three years to get the busy superstar cast as nala and theneeded a sasha fierce update. >> he put nala right alongside simba in the big fight and i thought that was really interesting and very real, because women, younow, we're the fighters. ♪ who run the world ♪ girls >> these three also likely helped seal the deal. >> being a mother, my family is my biggest priority. it's not many films that the parents can go and feel the way i feel about "lion king" and pass that legacy onto their kid. ♪ whoa spirit >> beyonce released her "spirit" music video last night in an abc news special. she just re-shot scenes last week at this arizona waterfall. when you're the queen, you can close down part of the grand canyon with just 24 hours' notice. who helped her do that? co-star james earl jones' brother handles arizona's filming permits. but in total, the waterfall scene is 10.5 seconds. ♪ rise up >> seven--year-old blue ivy's in the video and sings on mom's "lion king"inspired album out friday. the significance was not lost on beyonce's destiny's child

tonight, director jon favreau. world cup champions, alex morgan and megan rapinoe.or bennett. and now, step aside. jimmy kimmel! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. hello, everyone. i'm jimmy. thank you for watching, thank you for coming to join us. thank you for everything, really. this is, well, i'm glad you're in a great mood. because today we celebrate one of our most cherished holidays in this country. today is 7-eleven, also known as free slurpy day. [cheers and applause] although, you know, any

director jon favreau gave me an exclusive sneak behind the scenes.e story fans have loved for 25 years, but favreau has used virtual reality to give it a whole new look, taking it to the next technical level. request y can you explain to people? >> it's hard. it's never been done before. it's a mixture of technologies. we knew we had to make it feel like a live action film as much as possible. but there's nothing real in the movie, no real animals, no real sets. no motion capture. nothing. just pixels. >> reporter: those pixels look just like animals to me. jon showed me part of the movie and i couldn't tell the difference. >> rises and falls like the sun. >> i just thought it was completely remarkable and just pushing the envelope in an extraordinary way. >> this is wildly complicated. i could explain it. >> i can describe it, i can't explain it. >> i have no idea. >> what technology? >> she's talking about the cameras? >> at one point they put some sort of virtual reality helmet on me. i still don't know why. >> at one point. i still don't get it.

one of the most endung, and it was a lot of pressure on us, but we feel great about e movie that jon favreau and the teammate. reporter: disney and had a lot of successn recent years dating animated classics like " beauty and the beast" andf "aladdin" for the 21st century and they are hoping that " the lionha king" will continue street. -- streak. laura: this week the world is honoring the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and while the focus will be on the astrouts made a great leap into space, the families left behind honors also -- left behind on earth also felt the weight of history. baln flew on the apollo 12 mission. his family told the bbc about lifes an astronaut family. >> my fath was alan bean, the lunar module pilot on apollo 12, fourth man to walk on the moon. he was not the typical astronaut. the did not come across as super macho, although he was macho. he was more introverted and artistic. >>lan was such a dedicated pilot and dedicated astronaut and really a dedicated american. >> our neighborhood was very close to nasa. everyone was either an engineer, flight controller,

but in the end different hands of course is going to feel differently when we talk to jon favreau aboutit was interesting because he said as he was going to the process and trying to figure out where it could be different and where needed to be the same. he said they did a pride rock a shot of pride rock but it was facing the other direction and they put it up and he said everyone in the crew went no. and that's wrong. it's most today is the other way. it's it's a nice place we had a lot of discussion in the studio when we made the movie which clearly there is a right way to the duo recall how james earl jones prepared for recording sessions funniest thing was that whatever he would get in front of a microphone he would do a warm-up exercise. >>which was kind of hilarious spectacular and kind of almost unbelievable is that he's still working 25 years later. >>doing the same role i mean that's just unbelievable. >>cheese time rises and like the sun. >>in hollywood, i'm rick damigella. >>new chase center in san francisco is on track ready for its first event you're looking at the progress

tomorrow night, jon favreau will be here. we have music from taylor bennett.ins of the women's world cup championship soccer team, alex morgan and megan rapinoe. >> jimmy: our first guest is a multi-talented person you know from many movies, but none bigger than this. next, he gives voice to the warthog known as pumbaa in "the lion king" which opens everywhere july 19th. please give a big "hakuna matata" to seth rogen. [cheers and ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm good. >> jimmy: seth -- [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: i saw you last night. >> yes. >> jimmy: and i'm wondering, why are you so handsome right now? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: this is an animated movie. you don't need it. >> i don't need it. i save it for these moments. i should be putting this on-screen. >> jimmy: you got to peck yoick spots. >> i'm sorry, everybody. >> jimmy: i'm surprised you're working on 7/10, on oil day. did you know about oil day? >> no, i didn't, that's like a thing? whatever, you know, any excuse to vape it up, i guess, why not. vape it. yeah. >> jimmy: how are you doin'? eve

jon favreau will be here a little bit later and seth rogen who plays pumbaa, it's great. [ applause ]ers. it's amazon prime day, and this year doubling down with two huge days of savings. competition fighting back with their own bargains and rebecca jarvis has tips on how to get the best deal. rebeck -- rebecca jarvis is here. hey, rebecca. >> many deals are expected to be even better than black friday and that's because it's not just amazon doing the discounts, the good news for shoppers, prime day has become a competition among retailers of how low can you go? >> reporter: amazon prime day now under way ushering in a slew of delectable deals. consumers expected to spend $1 billion worldwide, but it's not just amazon. now many rivals also offering their own black friday in july sales, no membership necessary. >> target, walmart and ebay are having some great sales. where the best sales lay are in apparel and also in electronics. >> reporter: call it the halo effect. walmart getting a jump on the competition kicking off its own sale sunday, touting four straight days of discounts on e

i feel truly blessed and thank to you jon favreau. you've been nala for the past five years of your life. we do have a clip we do want to show. i know the movie is out. we'll give you a little tease. let's check it out. ♪ oh i just can't wait to be king ♪ >> you have rather a long way to go, young master. if you think -- ♪ no one saying do this no one saying be there ♪ ♪ no one saying stop that no one saying see here ♪ >> now, see here. ♪ free to run around all day >> well, that's definitely out. ♪ free to do it all my way [ cheers and applause ] >> okay. our audience didn't see it but you all were still dancing to this song that i know both of you have performed a lot but you especially because you've been nala since 2014. >> yeah. >> i mean how many times have you all performed that song? >> like three times. >> yeah, like three times together. >> oh. >> yeah, yeah. >> people have asked us to sing it. we've sung it a few times. >> all right. no cup cakes and we're not going to ask you to sing. doing things differently around here th

and later this week, seth rogen, dave bautista, jon favreau, world cup champions alex morgan and megann smith and taylor bennett. please join us for all that. we don't do this for our health. our first guest is one of the funniest men alive who has a big job wednesday night entertaining the greatest athletes on earth as host of the espys here on abc. please welcome tracy morgan. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: how you doing? >> i'm good, man. >> jimmy: you smell good. >> thank you. that's a trick of the trade. my daddy said always wear fragrances. >> jimmy: may i ask what fragrance you use? >> i don't know. >> jimmy: were you here for the earthquake? >> yeah. man, i'm from the east coast. we don't get earthquakes. we got crack heads. the earth started shaking so i popped my pants. of course i did, and a little bit of pea came out. so they said that's going to be going on for the next 20 days so i got this for the aftershock. >> jimmy: oh. underwear. you've got a giant pair of underwear. >> i'm ready for the aftershock. it's all i could find. >> jimmy: well, i'm glad you're okay. yo

and thursday, jon favreau, taylor bennet and world cup soccer winners alex morgan and megan rapinoe.night is an emmy, grammy and golden globe winner. he is a gambino a lando and, now, at long last, a king. he gives voice to simba in the all-new version of "the lion king" opening july 19th. please welcome donald glover. [cheers and ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: whoa, this is quite an ensemble. you're really a method actor, i guess. huh? >> this is what we wore every day. >> jimmy: disney really, they spared no expense. is this something you can get at fashion nova? >> they, and i'm not sure, but i believe jim henson creature shop made this. >> jimmy: they made this for you. >> took about five years. >> jimmy: they did a beautiful job. and i notice some of the hair from the costume is getting into your beard. >> no, this is just stress. >> jimmy: it's just stress. >> i was working with andy serkis, you know him? >> jimmy: sure. >> he did all the movements. i've been working with him in africa for about two years before i got into it, so i've just, you know, industries. >> jimmy: yo

starred in the film and he contacted me while they were working on it and was like, "hey, i told jon favreau what '90s n ds like about 'liong' and stuff. so - >> jimmy: wow! >> that's what i did i came in and i gave - >> jimmy: you're a nostalgia consultant >> that's what -- i'm the guy who knows about nostalgia. so - >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah, man >> jimmy: dude, this is amazing. >> yeah. >> jimmy: this will get you other gigs >> yeah, exactly and it did give me another gig i ended up doing -- i did a little bit of slight vocal f work on the animatedm. >> jimmy: could we know -- will me know it's you when we hear you? >> no, no, no. you won't know it's me [ light laughter ] it's very, very weird. i it's like -- do like a lot of the background noises. lll i'm dead serious >> jimmy: are you sure that you're in this movie >> yeah. >> jimmy: are you sure [ laughter ] >> in very small parts if you see an antelope grazing or you see - >> jimmy: wow. >> i'm so serious ght now. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: wait, so they -- you went in -- they had chance the rapper come in. and then you - >> a yeah -- >> jim

i have to ask the question everybody is asking me, jon favreau, the director of lion king" i know you talked to him, how did he get those loins to act on cue? >> come on, man. oh, please. you know. you know, you know what he did. and we're going to try and explain how that all happened in the special. but yeah, you're watching it. eating your popcorn and wait, how did they do that. that's what we try to explain a little bit with the behind the scenes. john fab row, he knocked it out of the park. you're a fan of the lion king" and billions of people. you have to honor that and know that people will be sitting in this seat like come on, what you got? but you also want to bring your own little flavor to it. you want to respect the history of it, but also you want to as best as you can, with respectf eit. >> "thli you feel tig special a tonight at 8:00 right here on abc7. >> fab row is a great director. in some very funny movies. >> a historical landmark or an opportunity? the dilapidated nursery some say could be affordable housing. others have a different plan. we'll explain come up. >>

but in the end different hands of course is going to feel differently when we talk to jon favreau about it. it was interesting because he said as he was going through the process and trying to figure out where it could be different and where needed to be the same. he said they did a pride rock a shot of pride rock but it was facing the other direction and they put it up and he said everyone in the crew at know. and that's wrong. it's most today is the other way. it's it's a nice place we had a lot of discussion in the studio when we made the movie which way the shot right way so clearly there is a right way to duo recall how james earl jones prepared for recording sessions funniest thing was that whatever he would get in front of a microphone he would do a warm-up exercise. >>which was kind of hilarious spectacular and kind of almost unbelievable is that he's still working 25 years later. >>doing the same role i mean that's just unbelievable. >>cheese time rises and like the sun. damigella. and now for a check of your 4 zone forecast let's take a look at your wake-up planner forecast an

jon favreau did an amazing job. they worked on this movie for years. it looks so real. >> jimmy: i heard they killed like 100 animals to make this movie. >> they did. they had to, but it was worth it, because it's going to make a billion dollars! they didn't kill any animals. they're all fake animals. >> jimmy: no animals were in the movie. >> exactly. >> jimmy: when was the first time you sang in public. >> ever? >> jimmy: yeah, ever. >> i think i was actually in kindergarten, i swear, there was a talent show, and i got up and i sang. >> jimmy: do you remember what you sang? >> yes, >> jimmy: did you play the more monica? >> i didn't play the harmonica. >> jimmy: while we're on the subject of music, you tweeted something @taylor swift. i want to know the back story. you tweeted, i guess i was too gay for the taylor swift video. >> that sounds harsh without context. taylor swift made this lovely, very pro-lgbt video. she's a great ally, and literally, every gay person on television was in the video except for me. i'm not kidding. neil patrick harris, a

animals and african landscapes but it's all computer generated images except one shot director jon favreaud on twitter the film's very first shot is a real image of africa. says he wanted to see if anyone would notice. meanwhile once upon a time in hollywood was quentin tarantino's biggest debut ever and it was especially popular with members of the motion picture academy's deadline reports every seat was filled and at least 75 people were turned away at the academy's official membership screening saturday in hollywood sony's hosting another screening this week to handle the overflow turns out people who work in hollywood like seeing movies about hollywood in hollywood, i'm david daniel. >>and that wraps up kron 4 news at night prime time coverage continues at the top of the hour. ken wayne is here with kron 4 news at 10. he can thank you very much next at 10 o'clock a community in gilroy blocked off right now as police search for a car. >>belonging to the gunman in yesterday's garlic festival shooting. this is brand-new video of a robot from the bomb squad examining the vehicle one of man

director jon favreau gave me an exclusive peek behind the scenes of the new film during production. story fans have loved for 25 years, but favreau has used virtual reality to give it a whole new look, taking to it the next technical level. >> can you just explain to people? >> i'll try. it's hard. >> i know. >> it's kind of hard because it's never been done before. it's a mixture of technologies. we knew we had to make it feel like a live-action film as much as possible but there's nothing real in the movie. there's no real sets, there's no real animals, there's no motion capture, there's nothing but pixels. >> reporter: to keep the human touch the photography wasn't computerized. the cameraman operated a real camera linked to the virtual reality program. >> lion, lion, lion! >> reporter: i wanted to make the naturalism not just be in the technology, in the rendering, but also in the performance. >> hakuna matata! most people get a bigger reaction! >> did you envision when you were thinking about a warthog seth rogen? >> yeah, that was a pretty easy one. >> come on. >> that wasn't

. >> also billy eichner, seth rogen, john oliver, jon favreau, who helmed the 2016 oscar winner "theting "the lion king," which hits theaters on july 19th. >> get ready for that from our parent company, disney. >>> next to the surprise announcement from pharell williams. >> he's the man who made the whole world happy with his catchy tune six years ago, and now he's given a group of high school students a brand-new reason to be happy. >> the 13-time grammy award-winning singer and producer was giving his commencement speech to harlem's children's own promise academy here in new york city when he stunned the audience with this promise. >> so let me be clear. for every member of the 2019 graduating class is guaranteed an internship waiting for them, you, next summer. >> you get an internship, you get an internship. >> yes! >> williams has been working with the charter school to create an internship program that would give students access to connections in fields they would not otherwise have access to. and i say to those students, it's there for you. >> yes. >> take it. >> hats off to p

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you know, jon favreau is an exciting filmmaker. ironman was an exciting character.ibility and the way that the marvel universe could be reflected in an accurate way to what stanley had come up with. >> the idea of so many superheros in one movie, this has never been done before. >> the avengers had the biggest u.s. opening ever this weekend. the first movie to make more than $200 million in one weekend alone. >> outside of the actual marvel comic books where they do their world building, i don't think there's been another cinematic experience that is as intricately written as the marvel universe. they've done a really good job of threading this through how these guys have evolved even with different directors and different writers. ♪ hello, daddy, hello, mom ♪ cherry bomb >> the new stardom is the brand. marvel is arguably the biggest star in the history of movies. and i would take that argument and say nothing comes close. no movie star has ever come close to being as big as marvel is in motion pictures today. cake in the conference room! showing 'em you're ready..

director jon favreau gave me an exclusive peek behind the scenes of the new film during production. ♪ooms and it's out there in the wore. billions of people have access to this and you feel people come together through that and it's the best feeling in the world. >> reporter: it's the same story fans have loved for 25 years but favreau has used virtual reality to give it a whole new look taking it to the next technical level. >> you must take your place in the circle of life. >> have mercy, i beg you. >> mercy? after what you did? >> it was the hyenas. >> you can't win, scar. >> reporter: with actors who grew up with "the lion king" performing in the film means coming full circle. ♪ >> i think the circle of life as a child you hear that and it's a good song and you understand it. i think as a father, i like was holding my son the other day and walked past a mirror and had my glasses on and i was like, i look just like my dad. >> look closer. he lives in you. like it was a moment of, oh, this just keeps going. i think now with this movie you see the continual nature of this life. [ app

. >> i spent a little time with jon favreau, the director.not. i cannot. i can't pour the tea on that but it is beautiful. i cannot wait for everybody to see it. beautiful, beautiful. >> mark the calendar. >>> now, pharrell williams did something to make high school grads in harlem pretty happy. the superstar rapper and producer gave the keynote speech at harlem's promise academy high school graduation ceremony last week motivating the students to embrace their talent and then he dropped this big surprise. >> so let me be clear, for every member of the 2019 graduating class is guaranteed an internship waiting for them, you, next summer. [ cheers and applause ] >> what a difference for all those students. all 114 graduating students at harlem's promise academy have offers to attend college and now they've been given a leg up in internship for next summer and williams network of businesses to help them succeed in their respective fields. that will make a huge difference. >> ciara can tell you how much that will help. internships are a big deal.

the director jon favreau. i don't know how he did it. seth rogen, hysterical.see the behind-the-scenes special before "the lion king" hits theaters next week. >> appointment television. >> as is this. >> yes. that's right. >>> we're at the peak of summer. i think we all know what that means, it's wedding season. if you don't ask me ask these 52 couples in times square because they alln wedny in a b we all part of the tlc series "say yes to the dress," america. the host, of course, bridal designer randy fenoli is here with us. >> thank you. >> i have a question for all of you, ladies and gentlemen, was it the day of your dreams? [ cheers and applause ] i kind of thought they were going to say that. randy, not only did you officiate the wedding which was i'm sure a pretty remarkable thing but you also took each of these ladies shopping to find their dress. how did you make each one so unique for each individual for 52 brides all at once? >> amy, let me tell you something, to get one bride to say yes to a dress is a feat. and we did 52. one from each state, puerto